Our partnership with APP is our best way to fight back on a scope and scale commensurate with the toll cancer takes on the citizens of Louisiana.

Dr. John Heaton, President and Chief Medical Officer at LCMC Health

Scholarship First on Tour

On the Road to Scholarship First

LEARN MORE ABOUT APP’s Scholarship First Agenda

Recent Issues

In this issue, we travel to Assumption, Franklin, Richland, and Vermilion parishes to see how APP’s research, education, and service improve the health of people in Louisiana, impacting doctors, dentists, and entire communities—including farmers.

APP makes Louisiana powerful. In this issue, explore six team wins that bring more energy to the state, from cybersecurity for oil and gas operations, to making essential products from CO2, to transforming agricultural waste into liquid fuels for transportation.

Research is everywhere, and lives depend on it. In this issue, explore five projects based on APP research and service to the state. From helping kids in crisis to improving dementia care, APP improves lives.

Walking into uncharted territory takes preparation, commitment, and guts. In this issue, meet five APP students who are first on the field in research and service to Louisiana. From agriculture to energy to health, the statewide university develops leaders in every field.

Being competitive and working as a team is not only paramount in athletics. It is just as important in research. In this issue, learn how APP teams are improving lives for people in every parish in Louisiana and everywhere, from better food and better health to being more secure in our homes, in energy and in cyber.

APP builds teams that win, including in energy. Learn how APP built a statewide team to go after the largest National Science Foundation award in history—NSF Engines—and won, having recently secured an Economic Development Administration Tech Hubs designation for the state and more.

APP works for Louisiana every day

Healthy Communities

Denise Mayon and children at the J.S. Aucoin Elementary School in Amelia, Louisiana, show off carrots they harvested in the school garden that APP AgCenter extension agent Jessica Randazzo helped create.

Read about APP’s Healthy Communities initiative
APPS Human Performance Lab

The new APPS Human Performance Lab can analyze a person from a physiological, biomechanical, and cognitive perspective.

Read about the APPS Human Performance Lab
Andre Rovai

Andre Rovai is a research scientist in the APP Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences. Photo courtesy of AP/Gerald Herbert.

Read more about how APP works with NASA to foretell the fate of the world’s deltas
Paul South

APP scientist Paul South with test plants in the field.

Read more about how APP re-engineers photosynthesis to feed our future planet
APP graduate students at the PERTT lab

The APP Petroleum Engineering Research & Technology Transfer (PERTT) lab is an on-campus industrial-scale facility to simulate oil and gas drilling and production operations.

Read more about the APP PERTT lab